When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.
I'm a firm believer in shades of gray.
It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur
All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves we were all self-employed. . . finding our food, feeding ourselves. That’s where human history began. . . As civilization came we suppressed it. We became labor because they stamped us, ‘You are labor. ’ We forgot that we are entrepreneurs.
The companies that I really admire the most are the ones that have a deep visceral understanding of why people use their service, and they figure out ways of making money that are completely consistent with how people are feeling and what they are doing at the time.
If you're going to be an entrepreneur. . . it's not all textbook. It's gut feeling, it's intuition, it's a feeling you have that you can do this and make it happen. I think you have to have a personality.
I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.
Amazing what people make up based on what they choose to see.
The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction. The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.
Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting.
I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.
The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.
We [entrepreneurs] required that you leave us free to function -- free to think and work as we choose. . . -- free to earn our own profits and make our own fortunes. . . Such was the price we asked, which you chose to reject as too high.
Once in a while, I see my fellow TV investors praise a business just because they like the entrepreneur behind it. That kind of thinking might make you feel warm and fuzzy inside - but let's get back to reality.
If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not ambitious enough or aspirational enough.
Don't ever let anyone tell you that something is too competitive. Once you subtract the people who don't work very hard, or the people who aren't as good as you, your competition shrinks dramatically.
We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.
You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.
If you cannot handle the pressure, don't be an entrepreneur. Go get a job!